Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1965. Bank.
Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society
- WRENN ID
- last-sentry-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1965
- Type
- Bank
- Address
- Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society, St Nicholas' Square
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97038, -1.61135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society is a bank built around 1845 by Benjamin Green for the Newcastle Joint Stock Bank. It is designed in the Palazzo style and constructed from sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof. The building has four storeys and five bays. The central entrance features double doors with an overlight set in a rusticated ground floor, which includes five arched openings, although the ones to the left of the door are covered by a 20th-century fascia. The right side has round-headed windows, while the left side has plain windows.
On the first floor, panelled pilasters define the bays that contain round-headed windows with keyed arched surrounds. A wide moulded bracket supports a three-bay balcony on the second floor. The second and third floors are adorned with a Giant Ionic Order, pulvinated friezes, and pediments above the second-floor windows, along with bracketed architraves on the third floor. The building is topped with an entablature featuring a dentilled and modillioned cornice, and the low-pitched hipped roof has three conjoined ashlar chimneys.
Local climate
Newcastle and Gateshead Building Society receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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